Senior Finance Analyst

Condé Nast is a global media company producing the highest quality content with a footprint of more than 1 billion consumers in 32 territories through print, digital, video and social platforms. The company’s portfolio includes many of the world’s most respected and influential media properties including Vogue, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Self, GQ, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler/Traveller, Allure, AD, Bon Appétit and Wired, among others.Job Description

Location:

New York, NY

Condé Nast is a global media company, home to iconic brands including Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Glamour, AD, Vanity Fair and Wired, among many others. The company's award-winning content reaches 84 million consumers in print, 367 million in digital and 379 million across social platforms, and generates more than 1 billion video views each month.

The company is headquartered in London and New York, and operates in 32 markets worldwide, including China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico & Latin America, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, the U.K. and the U.S., with local license partners across the globe.
 

Position Overview 

The Senior Finance Analyst based in New York is a key member of the Corporate FP&A function, which is responsible for managing the Conde Nast Global P&L as well as running the budgeting and forecasting process to help deliver the company’s financial targets. The team is based in the US, UK and India, and we work closely with all functions and markets, as well as the People function. Our work is absolutely critical to the business as we help to ‘connect the dots’ and provide the global executive leadership team with the insight and information needed to manage company performance and drive strategic decisions. We are also at the forefront of implementing consistent and standardized reporting and processes across the company, aligned with our F&O vision. 
 

Key responsibilities of this role include:

• Support Senior Finance Director to provide ongoing business partnering support to the global finance leads through developing a deep understanding of key drivers and business challenges, and forge close working relationships across multiple finance stakeholder groups. 

• Oversee the production of the key monthly consolidated reporting for the group (reviewing the center of excellence outputs to ensure accuracy)

• Help to prepare the monthly financial results to the global CEO & CFO as well as providing reporting packs for the board & Conde Nast executive leadership team. Provide insightful, forward-looking commentary on performance and proactively identify areas to investigate further 

• Review and report our monthly global KPIs, joining the dots between the financial & non-financial metrics and collaborating with senior colleagues across various functions to ensure clear & accurate insights are provided.

• Support in the delivery of our global rolling risks and opportunities reporting to provide early indicators of global performance outside of the formal planning cycles.

• Support Senior Finance Director to answer time-sensitive questions from senior stakeholders

• Support the delivery of theglobal forecasting & budget process end to end; working closely with a variety of internal senior finance stakeholders across the business

• Proactively seek out opportunities to improve the efficiency & effectiveness of corporate FP&A reporting & insights
   

ESSENTIAL SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS

• At least +2 years post qualified or QBE (qualified by experience), at least 6-7 years relevant experience 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, experience collaborating with senior finance professionals, confident partnering with the business & being a ‘voice in the room’ Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, comfortable with handling lots of data and delivering quality outputs with minimal review required 

• Proven experience of using initiative to build a deeper understanding of the numbers to ‘tell the story’ about business performance

• Able to work in a cross-functional matrix organization, and experience in managing work deliverables across multiple time-zones.

• Experience of managing the delivery of reporting improvements from identifying the opportunity through to implementation in a complex operating environment.  

• Works well under pressure prioritizes effectively and takes ownership of deliverables 

• Self-motivated, flexible & a great team player, adaptable to pitch into wider demands of the team where required.

• Proficient user of G-suite, and prior exposure to Adaptive planning (Workday) or Oracle EPM.

The expected base salary range for this position is from $90k - $115k. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including but not limited to relevant skills, training, experience, and education.

What happens next?

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Condé Nast is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, familial status and other legally protected characteristics.